brittle star

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Mussels, anemones and brittle stars coat the platform’s thick steel pilings, sea lions frolic between its beams and tens of thousands of fish dart between its supports.

From Los Angeles Times

The find by the Hollingworths, a husband-and-wife team, includes three new species and an entire ecosystem of echinoderms — a group of animals that includes starfish, brittle stars, feather stars, sea lilies, sea cucumbers and echinoids.

From New York Times

And down in the sediment, starfish and brittle stars were feeling their way across the bottom with their fives arms, no doubt bumping into the occasional passing sea urchin or sea cucumber.

From BBC

The scans revealed the brittle star’s arm plates, which join together in a chain to form their internal skeleton; each had a pair of holes, a nerve hole and a muscle attachment hole.

From New York Times

On the seabeds surrounding South Georgia, scientists have found abundant communities of brittle stars, urchins, worms, and sponges.

From National Geographic